Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 1–3 cm;

blade simple, ovate to elliptic, 4.5–13 × 2–5.5 cm, margins entire, base rounded to acute.

petiolate;

petiole 1–4 cm;

blade simple, ovate, 6–15 × 3–10 cm, margins sinuate or shallowly to deeply lobed with 2–4 lobes per side, lobe margins entire to coarsely lobed, base truncate to cuneate and often oblique.

terminal to extra-axillary, much-branched, with numerous flowers, 2–8 cm.

extra-axillary, 1–several times branched, to ca. 20-flowered, 6–14 cm.

erect and 0.7–1 cm in flower and fruit.

1–2.5 cm in flower, 1.5–3 cm and curved downward in fruit.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 2–4 mm, moderately stellate-pubescent, lobes triangular;

corolla white, stellate, 1.5–2 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 3–4.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed or with sparse prickles, 6–14 mm, densely stellate-pubescent, lobes ovate-lanceolate;

corolla lavender, pale blue, or sometimes white, stellate to stellate-pentagonal or rotate-stellate, 2–4.6 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue at margins and bases of lobes;

stamens equal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 5–9 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary minutely pubescent, hairs simple and stellate, rarely densely stellate-pubescent, glandular and eglandular.

red, globose, 0.5–1 cm diam., glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent, without sclerotic granules.

yellow, subovoid to depressed-globose, 1–2 × 1–2.5 cm, glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

yellow, flattened, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.

yellow, flattened, 1.9–3 × 1.7–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.

= 24.

= 72.